Wisconsin Rapids Mayor Zach Vruwink is a free man after a special prosecutor declined to pursue charges that he broke election laws by posting a ballot on Facebook in February.

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Robert Mentzer
Gannett Central Wisconsin Media

An odd kerfuffle about voting laws that flared up in Wisconsin Rapids during the spring election has now come to an end, as a special prosecutor told Daily Tribune Media that she would not charge Mayor Zach Vruwink with a crime for posting a picture of his primary ballot online.

Vruwink is guilty, at least in the sense that he did take a picture of his ballot. There is a vestigial law against this, created to prevent the selling of votes, big-city-machine-politics style.

Vruwink is not guilty of that. At worst, maybe he's guilty of minor social media oversharing. And so Clark County District ...